2025 Bosward Fiano

2025 Bosward Fiano. For two centuries Australia has been stretching many native European varieties over warm and dramatic climates. The use of irrigation has forced them to perform beyond their abilities with wine quality being barely adequate. This was fuelled by marketing and salespersons budget needs to secure the fragile and shaky path of least resistance. Lazy, quite frankly. The real engine room of Australian wine, small and medium winemakers have always had to

.For two centuries Australia has been stretching many native European varieties over warm and dramatic climates. The use of irrigation has forced them to perform beyond their abilities with wine quality being barely adequate. This was fuelled by marketing and salespersons budget needs to secure the fragile and shaky path of least resistance. Lazy, quite frankly.
The real engine room of Australian wine, small and medium winemakers have always had to diversify with new (and old) varieties to get their snout in the trough. We do Semillon as an old one but believe in Touriga and Barbera, in forging a business around what works and what fits our region. Non-Vegan, words over, we needed another white wine to secure our white stable. Sorry Vegans there I go again.
We thought a bit and decided to attempt Fiano and our friend David Cook had some. We are into working with the less tried cepage but in this case there are some excellent examples with15-20 years of experience to help guide us.
Its heritage is southern Italy, hot, dry arid and it has been proven in McLaren Vale in particular. Our 2025 comes from Barossa North (Clare really). It holds acid, ripens late and revels in a heat wave, which we must contend with annually now. More importantly, it has an array of flavours that are familiar to me and the winemaking is always fundamental with great quality fruit. Many new varieties have been explored in the last 15 years, and Fiano is proving its ability to grow strong, produce excellent wines over numerous districts.
I reckon its quite exciting.
Its weight and complexity make it a fabulous food wine (as the Italian varieties do). So pair with robust poultry dishes, seafood and of course pasta.

Colour
Brilliant and sparkling. Like crown jewel

Nose
Nectarine and white peach. Genuinely floral. Lovely, cleaned bees wax overlay. Steel cut oats and burger muesli. Excellent purity.

Palate
Fiano offers a range of flavours that respond the natural salinity of south Australian wine. In this Fiano, lime cordial, lemon pith and really rind loaded marmalade come to mind.
It has really nice shape and texture over the tongue

Alcohol:              12.0%